The Podcast Rules

Back before Thanksgiving, I had mentioned the podcasts I was listening to at that given time. Since then, I’ve developed a few rules about the podcasts I listen to in order to make sure I’m getting a wider field of knowledge, and thus making sure I’m not listening to the same topics or bands.

My rules are:

Only one podcast to a topic.

Only one podcast from any one company. (For example, only one podcast from NPR.)

I try to listen to at one show with a topic or host I disagree with.

I don’t try to listen to podcasts with a very open political bias that’s a strong point of the show.

If I have no podcasts with current episodes to listen to, I allow myself to add a new one.

But, I’m also allowed to waive any of those rules…you guessed it…one time.

Notice how the number “one” keeps coming up? Hmmm.

And so, my current list looks like this:

6:05 Superpodcast (comes out every 10 days or so, but the host, Brian Last, puts out exceptional work, so worth the added wait)

The Jim Cornette Experience (yep, used my “waiver” on classic wrestling, a lot more fun then than it is now…)

The Big Listen (NPR’s podcast about other podcasts with the fun and snarky Lauren Ober)